Re: Creation of DB & Control files

Apologies to anyone comtemplating reply, as I have now sorted it out ! :-) It seems the magic of newsgroups is that you struggle with something for hours (and sometimes days) and post a question or two - and no sooner have you done that, than a solution materialises ;-)

Lee

"Lee Crampton" <lee_at_avbrief.com> wrote in message news:6ECr7.1125$KP.204520_at_news2-win.server.ntlworld.com...
> Hi All
> I have installed Oracle 8i on linux Red Hat 7.1 (with much fudging
around).
> When attempting it on a second remote machine, I had various problems
which
> I took to be due to X and my connection.
> In short after 5 attempts the futhest I could get was to 80% of the DB
> initialisation.
>
> Now I can start an Oracle instance but cannot mount a DB simply because
the
> job didn't finish. I have lookes at many pages on creating control files
> etc, but I need a bit more than that. Since runInstaller isn't a script I
> can't work out what tasks to perform in order to do this.
> In short, can anyone provide me with the means to create and init some DB
> space with control files.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Lee Crampton
>
>
Received on Mon Sep 24 2001 - 05:26:52 CDT